Band 6 Mental Health Nurse or Allied Health Professional
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Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust Band 6 Mental Health Nurse or Allied Health Professional
The closing date is 13 September 2026
Job summary
Band 6 Nurse
You will be working within the Urgent and Crisis and Home Treatment area of the Gleadless and Heeley Neighbourhood Mental Health Centre, working shifts of 8am - 8pm across 7 days per week on a rota basis.
You will join an exciting new team, one of the first 6 pilot sites across the UK to launch to the Neighbourhood Mental Health Model of care. The aim is to establish a coherent, functionally integrated team, working with the VCSE, social care and the local community to deliver high quality mental health care for all the people of Gleadless & Heeley aged 18 or over.
The Centre will embrace the 10 key principles highlighted for the NMHCs:
Trusted Relationships
Continuity of Care
Open Access
All Means All
Co- Produced
Citizenship & Belonging
Close to primary care and system partners
Neighbourhood based
Freedom, Autonomy & Choice
Do not harm.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work within a multi-disciplinary home treatment team, sharing a base with CMHT, PCMHT, VCSE, peer workers and community groups.
Core responsibilities will include:
- Comprehensive assessment of new referrals in crisis, intervention planning and care plan formulations.
- Care planning for patients who are accessing the on site beds.
- Service coordination duties include, understanding the roles of the team that day, which patients will be seen and identifying any gaps where services could be supported. Attending morning meetings/ referral meetings and Weekley MDT's
- Taking referrals from other services where the person is identified to be registered with a Heeley PCN GP.
- Carrying out initial HTT visit to set up plan of care and interventions for the team
- Link to other clinical areas such as inpatient and CMHT's
- Delivering supervision to more junior members of staff
- Contribute to service development
About us
We are passionate about providing the very best care to the people we support, and we're looking for amazing people who share this passion to join us.
What is it that makes our Trust such a special place to work? Well, it's all about the people. Our staff, service users, carers and families all come from such diverse backgrounds and all have expertise and stories to share.
It's important that you feel supported in your role, that the people who you work with are as passionate as you are and that your health and wellbeing is taken care of
If you're interested in developing your career, you'll have access to a range of training and education opportunities, including apprenticeships, work experience and placements, as well as the chance to get involved in research.
We are very proud of the difference we make to people's lives each and every day and if that's something that you'd like to be part of we'd love to have you with us.
Details
Date posted
26 August 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£39,959 to £48,117 a year per annum
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
6 months
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
457-26-8221489
Job locations
Neighbourhood mental health Centre- Terry wright community hall/ Newfield Green clinic
gleadless road
sheffield
S2 2BT
United Kingdom
Job description
Job responsibilities
General requirements
- Maintain NMC registration and adhere to professional guidelines and code of conduct
- Work within the framework of relevant policy and legislation both local and national
Principal duties
Clinical
- Triage new referrals to the service
- Carry out comprehensive assessments of an individuals health and social care needs in a variety of settings and agree the most appropriate course of action
- To assess, evaluate and manage clinical risk
- To formulate a plan of care based on identified need
- Deliver evidence based crisis interventions as appropriate
- Review effectiveness of care plan at regular intervals
- To work collaboratively with service users, carers and partner agencies
- To coordinate the clinic work of a day by day basis
- To maintain computer held care records in an accurate and timely fashion
- Undertake all work in a culturally sensitive manner
- Act in accordance with relevant policy and legislation.
- Develop and support effective working relationships with inpatient, community and voluntary organisations.
- Ensure timely and supported step down from acute inpatient setting and provide preventative intervention to avoid unnecessary acute admission.
- Support admissions for service users within the Heeley + PCN to access the onsite hospitality beds to avoid further escalation of crisis.
Supervision
- Regularly review own clinical work with supervisor to promote efficacy and contribute to the overall management of the HTT & NMHC
- Deliver supervision and facilitate annual PDR with more junior members of staff
- Participate in own PDR process, identifying training and development needs, and pursuing relevant actions to maintain and improve level of competence and effective contribution
Education and Training
- Act as mentor to learners, keep up to date with relevant course and curriculum developments, and maintain sign off status
- Participate in training relevant to role, including training needs for the team.
- Promote insight and understanding of mental health issues to service users, carers, and other agencies
- Contribute to audit, research and evaluation as appropriate
Service Development
- Contribute to service development and review of development of the NMHC in line with national development of the pilots.
Job responsibilities
General requirements
- Maintain NMC registration and adhere to professional guidelines and code of conduct
- Work within the framework of relevant policy and legislation both local and national
Principal duties
Clinical
- Triage new referrals to the service
- Carry out comprehensive assessments of an individuals health and social care needs in a variety of settings and agree the most appropriate course of action
- To assess, evaluate and manage clinical risk
- To formulate a plan of care based on identified need
- Deliver evidence based crisis interventions as appropriate
- Review effectiveness of care plan at regular intervals
- To work collaboratively with service users, carers and partner agencies
- To coordinate the clinic work of a day by day basis
- To maintain computer held care records in an accurate and timely fashion
- Undertake all work in a culturally sensitive manner
- Act in accordance with relevant policy and legislation.
- Develop and support effective working relationships with inpatient, community and voluntary organisations.
- Ensure timely and supported step down from acute inpatient setting and provide preventative intervention to avoid unnecessary acute admission.
- Support admissions for service users within the Heeley + PCN to access the onsite hospitality beds to avoid further escalation of crisis.
Supervision
- Regularly review own clinical work with supervisor to promote efficacy and contribute to the overall management of the HTT & NMHC
- Deliver supervision and facilitate annual PDR with more junior members of staff
- Participate in own PDR process, identifying training and development needs, and pursuing relevant actions to maintain and improve level of competence and effective contribution
Education and Training
- Act as mentor to learners, keep up to date with relevant course and curriculum developments, and maintain sign off status
- Participate in training relevant to role, including training needs for the team.
- Promote insight and understanding of mental health issues to service users, carers, and other agencies
- Contribute to audit, research and evaluation as appropriate
Service Development
- Contribute to service development and review of development of the NMHC in line with national development of the pilots.
Person Specification
desiarable
Essential
- hold a UK driving license
qualification
Essential
- RMN qualification or Social work qualification
essencial
Essential
- Band 6 currently or Band 5 for over 2 years.
- community working experiance
- ability to assess mental health in both a scheduled and crisis capacity
- knowledge and experience of intervention used in crisis services
- experience in devising and implementing care plans.
Desirable
- knowledge of the UK triage rating scale
- experience of triaging
- experience in crisis services
- knowledge of the Neighbourhood mental health center
- experience working across varying sectors of mental health, including primary, secondary and voluntary care sector
desiarable
Essential
- hold a UK driving license
qualification
Essential
- RMN qualification or Social work qualification
essencial
Essential
- Band 6 currently or Band 5 for over 2 years.
- community working experiance
- ability to assess mental health in both a scheduled and crisis capacity
- knowledge and experience of intervention used in crisis services
- experience in devising and implementing care plans.
Desirable
- knowledge of the UK triage rating scale
- experience of triaging
- experience in crisis services
- knowledge of the Neighbourhood mental health center
- experience working across varying sectors of mental health, including primary, secondary and voluntary care sector
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Neighbourhood mental health Centre- Terry wright community hall/ Newfield Green clinic
gleadless road
sheffield
S2 2BT
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.sheffieldpartnership.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Neighbourhood mental health Centre- Terry wright community hall/ Newfield Green clinic
gleadless road
sheffield
S2 2BT
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.sheffieldpartnership.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Crisis clinical team manager
Rebecca Roberts
01142716310
Details
Date posted
26 August 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£39,959 to £48,117 a year per annum
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
6 months
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
457-26-8221489
Job locations
Neighbourhood mental health Centre- Terry wright community hall/ Newfield Green clinic
gleadless road
sheffield
S2 2BT
United Kingdom
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